CLEARLAKE -- The Clearlake Police Department (CPD) is asking for the assistance of the public in locating Sara Beck and Lacy Elwood. The two teenage girls were reported missing from their homes on Nov. 17.

The two are best friends and were last known to be headed for Taco Bell and then to an unknown friend's house.

Follow-up investigations into the missing girls' whereabouts has developed unsubstantiated information they have been seen near a local hotel or may be headed to the Ukiah area. Additional unsubstantiated information is that the girls may have cut and dyed their hair darker.

Beck, 15, is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. She has blond hair and hazel eyes and lives in Clearlake.

Any person with knowledge of the location of, or has any information concerning these missing girls needs to contact the CPD immediately. Their parents are frantic and need to know their daughters are safe. The CPD cautioned that any person who harbors these girls and does not provide information about their whereabouts may be prosecuted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Detective Ryan Peterson has been assigned as the lead investigator on this case. Any person with information is encouraged to contact the Clearlake Police Dispatch at 994-8251.